Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,115 5,726 7,166
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.90% 23.14% 19.13%
As % of the General category 34.66% 35.97% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,829 4,989
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -4.26% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 103 244
10th Percentile £15.23 £18.02 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £15.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +42.86% +2.79%
75th Percentile £54.17 £65.63 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.22 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £38.11 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.16% +38.58% -1.72%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,410 15,921 21,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.53% 64.35% 57.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,274 10,255 13,686
10th Percentile £313 £284 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,636 764 1,831
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.28 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.89
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.85 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.90% -10.16% +1.51%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,861 £575 -4.17% 2,626
North of England +2 1,273 £494 +6.81% 1,342
South East -1 675 £500 -4.31% 1,530
North West +4 671 £465 +3.33% 654
Midlands 0 634 £500 +9.29% 809
Yorkshire 0 553 £525 +10.53% 471
West Midlands +1 458 £509 +1.85% 416
South West -3 377 £525 -3.00% 545
East of England +3 197 £513 -10.87% 687
East Midlands -1 169 £473 +10.20% 391
North East -14 50 £500 +13.64% 228
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.57%) Confluence
2 198 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 77 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 60 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.55%) Apache
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 21 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
14 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.074%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.074%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.074%) Mendix
15 6 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 450 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 35 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.062%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 3 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.012%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 298 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 105 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 79 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 79 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 68 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 40 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 40 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 39 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 37 (0.46%) Aladdin
8 37 (0.46%) SAP FI
9 34 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
10 32 (0.39%) SAP CO
11 30 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 27 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
13 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
14 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
15 20 (0.25%) SAP ERP
16 19 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (15.95%) Azure
2 930 (11.46%) AWS
3 566 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 402 (4.95%) GCP
5 283 (3.49%) SaaS
6 277 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.55%) GitHub
9 187 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 159 (1.96%) Snowflake
11 151 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 135 (1.66%) Serverless
13 104 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 103 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 97 (1.20%) OCI
16 96 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
17 83 (1.02%) dbt
18 82 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
19 78 (0.96%) OpenShift
20 76 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 146 (1.80%) Firewall
2 122 (1.50%) Network Security
3 68 (0.84%) DNS
3 68 (0.84%) VPN
4 57 (0.70%) WAN
5 56 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.46%) BGP
7 32 (0.39%) HTTP
7 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 30 (0.37%) DHCP
9 29 (0.36%) SSL
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.31%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 17 (0.21%) Internet
16 17 (0.21%) VLAN
17 16 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (6.00%) Power BI
2 229 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 217 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 159 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 150 (1.85%) Metadata
6 140 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 126 (1.55%) Tableau
8 120 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 86 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 73 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.83%) Big Data
12 62 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 57 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 48 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.58%) Power Query
16 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 42 (0.52%) Delta Lake
17 42 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 600 (7.39%) JIRA
2 198 (2.44%) Git
3 147 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.08%) GitLab
5 52 (0.64%) JUnit
6 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.42%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.32%) MLflow
9 26 (0.32%) Postman
10 25 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.23%) Maven
14 17 (0.21%) ERwin
14 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
15 15 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.17%) Gradle
16 14 (0.17%) Hudson
17 13 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,362 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 1,514 (18.66%) Banking
3 1,061 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 451 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 356 (4.39%) Legal
6 330 (4.07%) Financial Institution
7 315 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 298 (3.67%) Front Office
9 270 (3.33%) Retail
10 266 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 199 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 194 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 154 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 140 (1.73%) Local Government
15 135 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 128 (1.58%) Law
17 127 (1.57%) General Ledger
18 123 (1.52%) Marketing
19 122 (1.50%) Billing
20 119 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,185 (14.60%) Analyst
2 918 (11.31%) Senior
3 852 (10.50%) Lead
4 829 (10.22%) Developer
5 767 (9.45%) Architect
6 631 (7.78%) Project Manager
7 600 (7.39%) Business Analyst
8 523 (6.44%) Consultant
9 317 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 279 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 211 (2.60%) Senior Manager
12 194 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
13 172 (2.12%) Data Analyst
14 169 (2.08%) Finance Manager
15 168 (2.07%) Accountant
16 167 (2.06%) Java Developer
17 158 (1.95%) Senior Developer
18 157 (1.93%) Programme Manager
19 155 (1.91%) Software Engineer
20 153 (1.89%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (3.02%) .NET
2 242 (2.98%) REST
3 235 (2.90%) React
4 228 (2.81%) Kafka
5 186 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 174 (2.14%) Middleware
7 144 (1.77%) Spring
8 143 (1.76%) Spring Boot
9 122 (1.50%) RESTful
10 106 (1.31%) Redux
11 101 (1.24%) PySpark
12 96 (1.18%) Node.js
13 86 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 77 (0.95%) JSON
15 73 (0.90%) OAuth
16 68 (0.84%) XML
17 60 (0.74%) CSS
18 57 (0.70%) Pandas
19 55 (0.68%) HTML
20 54 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 377 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 347 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 333 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 199 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 181 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 158 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 157 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 152 (1.87%) Derivative
10 143 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 141 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 136 (1.68%) Data Centre
13 120 (1.48%) Equities
14 114 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 104 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
16 97 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 96 (1.18%) AI Agents
18 90 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
19 88 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
20 78 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 284 (3.50%) Windows
2 252 (3.11%) Linux
3 132 (1.63%) Unix
4 62 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.46%) Solaris
5 37 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (0.33%) Android
9 25 (0.31%) zOS
10 20 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.086%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.074%) VMS
13 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.062%) HPUX
14 5 (0.062%) SUSE
14 5 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,729 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,669 (20.57%) Agile
3 1,140 (14.05%) Migration
4 1,041 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
5 933 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 879 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 872 (10.75%) DevOps
8 839 (10.34%) AI
9 836 (10.30%) CI/CD
10 809 (9.97%) ERP
11 801 (9.87%) Analytics
12 719 (8.86%) Project Management
13 718 (8.85%) Decision-Making
14 683 (8.42%) Roadmaps
15 680 (8.38%) Data Modelling
16 678 (8.35%) Validation
17 626 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 617 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
19 594 (7.32%) Change Management
20 533 (6.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (13.88%) SQL
2 989 (12.19%) Python
3 559 (6.89%) Java
4 359 (4.42%) C#
5 231 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 229 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 183 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 81 (1.00%) C++
9 74 (0.91%) Bash
9 74 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 66 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 64 (0.79%) Go
12 55 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 54 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.52%) Scala
14 42 (0.52%) VBA
15 30 (0.37%) Bicep
16 29 (0.36%) Apex Code
17 28 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 28 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 671 (8.27%) Degree
2 627 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 214 (2.64%) ACCA
5 210 (2.59%) PMP
6 189 (2.33%) CIMA
7 177 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 155 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 138 (1.70%) CISSP
10 127 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 83 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 81 (1.00%) CISM
12 81 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 76 (0.94%) Azure Certification
14 61 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 43 (0.53%) AWS Certification
17 38 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 31 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 359 (4.42%) QA
3 304 (3.75%) PMO
4 285 (3.51%) GDPR
5 159 (1.96%) NIST
6 132 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 112 (1.38%) IFRS
8 97 (1.20%) SLA
9 88 (1.08%) GRC
9 88 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 75 (0.92%) Accessibility
11 63 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 61 (0.75%) GAAP
13 56 (0.69%) ISO 20022
14 34 (0.42%) NCSC
14 34 (0.42%) PSD2
14 34 (0.42%) SEPA
14 34 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
16 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 262 (3.23%) Docker
2 165 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.36%) vSphere
5 27 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.074%) GPFS
12 6 (0.074%) KVM
13 5 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.037%) GridGain
15 3 (0.037%) SRDF
16 2 (0.025%) ACF2
16 2 (0.025%) HDFS
16 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 366 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 236 (2.91%) Terraform
3 127 (1.57%) Ansible
4 76 (0.94%) Grafana
5 67 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.62%) SCCM
8 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.31%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.14%) CASB
16 11 (0.14%) Puppet
17 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,047 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 672 (8.28%) Oracle
3 654 (8.06%) SAP
4 279 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 246 (3.03%) Databricks
6 202 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 182 (2.24%) Google
8 118 (1.45%) Workday
9 110 (1.36%) VMware
10 106 (1.31%) Splunk
11 95 (1.17%) Cisco
12 88 (1.08%) CyberArk
13 86 (1.06%) IBM
14 63 (0.78%) Citrix
14 63 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 54 (0.67%) Ariba
15 54 (0.67%) Sage
16 53 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 46 (0.57%) Informatica
18 44 (0.54%) Murex